European Circuit Event in Belfast : “Mediation: Extrajudicial solutions for cross-border disputes”

MARCH 14TH 2019 4PM

BAR LIBRARY AT THE INN OF COURT OF NORTHERN IRELAND, BELFAST 

“Mediation: Extrajudicial solutions for cross-border disputes”

Stormont is not talking, yet the Mediation Directive exhorts Member States to encourage mediation, particularly to preserve amicable and sustainable relationships between parties in dispute. It emphasises that these benefits become even more pronounced in situations displaying cross-border elements. Who is missing a trick? What sort of issues arise in a cross border mediation? At this event, experienced mediators give their take on how to make mediation work.

Mediation in public law cases: John Larkin QC, Attorney General for Northern Ireland (Chair); Friedrich-Joachim Mehmel, Administrative Judge, President of the Hamburg Higher Administrative and Constitutional Courts; Sir Paul Girvan PC, Lord Justice of Appeal of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland (retired).

Cross-border Mediation: Hugh Mercer QC, Chair of the Brexit Working Group of the Bar and the CCBE European Lawyers’ Committee (Chair); Brian Fee QC, Bar of Northern Ireland and member of the Bar of Ireland; John Sturrock QC, Distinguished Fellow, International Academy of Mediators; Colm Ó hOisín SC, the Bar of Ireland.

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